Comment by alfalfasprout
Comment by alfalfasprout 5 days ago
One important caveat to remember is that this is before a lot of the work on free-threaded python started in full force. A lot of cutting edge work had to be done to support this in the GC but this came with performance penalties. As a result, the trajectory of the Faster CPython effort changed quite a bit.
Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too...
> Didn't help Microsoft axed several folks on that team too...
Only after the four-year period was over, during which they only delivered a 1.5x - 2x speedup instead of the projected 5x.